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Ticket #1755
(closed feature: fixed)

Include arbitrary .c and .h files in distutils dynpmc build

Reported by:

whiteknight

Owned by:

fperrad

Priority:

normal

Milestone:

Component:

tools

Version:

2.7.0

Severity:

medium

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Cc:

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Platform:

all

Description

I would like the ability to cleanly add arbitrary .c and .h files into a dynpmc library I am building using distutils. However, there is no easy way to do this. darbelo suggested a method he used for his DecNumber project where he manually compiles the .c files, and then adds the resulting .o files to the dynpmc_ldflags string to be included in linking the library. This mechanism mostly works for me, but is not without it's disadvantages:

1) We can't specify extra .h files as build prerequisites for the .pmc files. So if the .h file changes, the .pmc files won't be re-converted to C and won't be re-compiled.
2) The extra .c and .h files cannot reference the pmc_*.h files generated by pmc2c. If I compile the .c files first, the pmc_*.h files haven't been generated yet. If I compile the .c files second, I cannot link them into the dynpmc shared library, since it has already been built and linked.

I would like the ability to be able to specify a list of .c and .h files along with the list of .pmc files. I would like to be able to do something like this in my setup.nqp file: